Carey Gillam

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Carey Gillam
BornOverland Park, Kansas, U.S.
OccupationInvestigative journalist
NationalityAmerican

Carey Gillam is an American investigative journalist. [1] [2] [3]

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Life and career

Gillam was born in Overland Park, Kansas. She started her career as a general assignment reporter for two small newspapers in Kansas. [4] Gillam spent several years working for the chain of business publications owned by American City Business Journals before joining the Thomson Corporation as a banking reporter covering southeast regional bank holding companies. She joined Reuters News Agency. [1] in 1998 where she covered agriculture, commodities markets, and general news assignments. Gillam left Reuters in October 2015 and has since appeared in The Guardian , Time , UnDark and other outlets.

In January 2016 Gillam joined U.S. Right to Know, an "investigative research group" funded by the Organic Consumers Association and conspiracy theorist Joseph Mercola, [5] as director of research despite having no formal background in science. In 2022, she became the managing editor of The New Lede, a news organization funded by the activist Environmental Working Group. [6] [7] She won the One World Media Environmental Reporting Award in 2025, together with Lighthouse Reports, for a series of article on the propaganda of agrochemical and biotech companies in defense of pesticides and GMOs in Africa and Europe. [8]

Gillam's articles have been accused of being anti-science and spreading disinformation. [9]

References

  1. 1 2 "World Forum for Democracy 2019: Speakers – Carey Gillam". Council of Europe . Retrieved November 28, 2020.
  2. ↑ "I'm a journalist. Monsanto built a step-by-step strategy to destroy my reputation: Carey Gillam". The Guardian . August 9, 2019. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Carey Gillam Biosketch" (PDF). European Parliament.
  4. ↑ Hiar, Corbin (October 5, 2018). "Newsmaker: Meet the crusading reporter brawling with Big Ag". Environment & Energy Publishing . Retrieved November 28, 2020.
  5. ↑ Bredderman, William (November 6, 2021). "This Fave Mainstream Media Source Is Funded by Anti-Vaxxers". The Daily Beast. Retrieved October 6, 2024.
  6. ↑ "#SEJSpotlight: Carey Gillam, Managing Editor, The New Lede; Freelance Journalist | SEJ". www.sej.org. June 9, 2022. Retrieved September 21, 2023.
  7. ↑ "Carey Gillam". The Guardian. Retrieved September 21, 2023.
  8. ↑ "Winners 2025". One World Media. Retrieved July 10, 2025.
  9. ↑ Editor, G. L. P. (May 4, 2021). "Viewpoint: Advocacy disguised as journalism? Meet Carey Gillam, the prolific purveyor of crop biotechnology and agri-chemical disinformation". Genetic Literacy Project. Retrieved October 6, 2024.{{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)


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